Notices by openrightsgroup (openrightsgroup@mastodon.social)

Ever wonder how the Internet might look if our digital rights are traded away after #Brexit? Find out now by visiting our fully interactive parody social website, #Futurebook

https://www.futurebook.co

#privacy #dataprotection #GDPR #FreedomofExpression #freespeech

BBFC age verification standard is "pointless, misleading and potentially dangerous" says our new report https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press/releases/2019/org-report:-bbfc-age-verification-standard-is-pointless,-misleading-and-potentially-dangerous #pornblock #ageverification

“Dangerous and irresponsible” age verification goes ahead: DCMS will be to blame if and when it goes wrong: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press/releases/2019/dangerous-and-irresponsible-age-verification-goes-ahead #ageverification

ICO age appropriate design code of conduct: tread lightly https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press/releases/2019/ico-age-appropriate-design-code-of-conduct-tread-lightly

Guardian letter:

Internet regulation proposals could censor the lawful speech of millions

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/10/internet-regulation-proposals-could-censor-the-lawful-speech-of-millions

With English Pen, Index on Censorship, Article 19 and Big Brother Watch

#allhailrobocopyright

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvpWQkbyW2A

#article13

BREAKING: privacy complaint shows that the online ad industry has known all along that profiling plus massive data sharing does not comply with data protection laws: https://fixad.tech/february2019/ #fixadtech

Competition law and privacy finally meet:

Germany Restricts Facebook’s Data Gathering

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/technology/germany-facebook-data.html

More (and better) news out of Strasbourg this morning. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that the UK’s mass #surveillance programmes have breached the European Convention on Human Rights. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/13/gchq-data-collection-violated-human-rights-strasbourg-court-rules

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press/releases/2018/uk-mass-surveillance-ruled-unlawful-in-landmark-judgment

Google or UK police: who is fibbing about terror takedowns? asks @jim as Google release their first Youtube transparency report https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2018/google-or-ctiru-who-is-fibbing-about-terror-takedowns … #censorship #CTIRU